The developer behind the application to replace Sunnybrook Plaza with a pair of mixed-use condominium towers is eager to negotiate a final height for the project before its upcoming Ontario Municipal Board hearing, Ward 26 Councillor Jon Burnside says.

As a long-time midtown resident, I could hardly believe how much I missed the courtyard outside of the Yonge Eglinton Centre during the past four years of renovations. This summer, things have been different. The northwest corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue has come back in a big way.

Not in our neighbourhood. That was the message delivered Tuesday night by about 150 Leaside residents to developer RioCan during a lively community consultation meeting at Leaside Memorial Gardens, where they argued against a proposal to build a 13-storey and a 19-storey condominium tower at Bayview and Eglinton, on the site currently occupied by Sunnybrook Plaza.